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Originally Posted by Jay

I suppose though that many elders and leading ones from other localities DID make it known that they were not ok with what happened and they were not ok with just covering it all up. Very interesting to know now where these "storms" that the speaking brothers are always talking about actually come from. Funny how they never go into detail about what caused these storms and funny how they always advise the saints to not go online and read about them

I tend to say many of the current leaders in the recovery were part of the problem rather than part of the solution. If you were to read about Rosemead, Speaking the Truth in Love, etc there were young ambitious elder wannabe's that had their fingerprints over those situations. A saying attributed to Phillip Lee "out with the old and in with the new", I took as a double meaning. It also implied, out with the older elders and in with the younger ones.
January 2004, I met Bill and Barbara Mallon at Steve Isitt's apartment in Bellevue. They had stopped by on their way to Moses Lake. I had always heard Bill left because of unfulfilled ambition. I asked Bill, did you leave because of ambition. Bill looked at me and said, "if I was ambitious, I never would have left".